W. Equatoria youth group deny links with pro-Machar rebels
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May 29, 2015 (JUBA) – The leader of a new resistance movement in South
Sudan’s Western Equatoria state has denied their alleged links to the
armed opposition led by former vice-president, Riek Machar.
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Wesley Welebe Samson said his group, locally known as the Nyarango
Boys, was not behind the recent insurgency in Mundri county.
He also dismissed claimed that his resistance movement was part of the
Revolution Movement for National Salvation (REMNASSA) that also
claimed responsibility for what occurred in Mundri.
A former lawmaker, Welebe said his groups of mainly area youth want to
protect farmers in greater Mundri from the pastoralists who have
invaded the area, continuously destroying farms in the area.
He described the pastoralists as “spoilers” of the peaceful
coexistence among the various communities in Mundri county.
“I am not [part of the] SPLM/A-In-Opposition as claimed by the
opposition”, the group’s leader told Sudan Tribune by phone Friday.
He said the Nyarango Boys movement was agitating for peace in the county.
Welebe lauded president Salva Kiir after the latter recently issued an
executive order calling for the removal of cattle from their
territory.
He claimed the recent killing of Mundri’s executive director was what
temporarily sparked off chaos and instability in the county.
The former legislator, however, called on the people of greater Mundri
to support the government of South Sudan and live in peace.
Our message to the government and president of the Republic of South
Sudan Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit is that we are for peace and not
against the government, the group’s leader assured on Friday.
He further disclosed that they were ready to dialogue with the
government, but on condition that his boys would be fully protected.
“The boys are ready and will be handed over to the government and some
of them to be recruited to the national army, police, national
security and other organised forces in the country such that they are
part of security that will protect people,” said Welebe.
FORMATION OF MIDWEST STATE
He also called on the president to consider the proposal to establish
Midwest state, which was tabled in his office some years ago, since
the Yambio administration had “failed” to solve local problems.
He said his group would not in any way fight the national army or government.
The leader of Nyarango Boys further refuted allegations that his group
is linked to one Lasuba and that they had no connection with his
group, which only aims at protection the farmers in the area. He urged
the government to treat his case differently.
He advocated that the army forces in Mundri be changed with
disciplined ones who and understand needs of the local population.
REBELLION OR NOT?
The South Sudanese army spokesperson, Col. Philip Aguer announced on
Monday that a new rebellion had been formed in Mundri county of
Western Equatoria state.
“There is a new rebel movement in Western Equatoria state. Security
reported that somebody called Charles Balogore under Wesley Waluba”
leads the rebellion”, he said.
But the state government dismissed reports of a rebellion as "not
true" and “one sided”.
“I stand by our earlier story that it was local youth who reacted to
the looting and destruction by SPLA unit in Mundri on Friday 22 May
2015 and took control. The youth were angry at the assassination of
their executive director plus random gunfire perpetuated by the army
then,” information minister, Charles Kisanga told Sudan Tribune.
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29 May 22:53, by marie
Wesley, you fired only one bullet and start to put conditions for
negotiations, you are not serious.
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30 May 01:17, by Ahmed Chol
Marie,
How many bullets have you fired? Stop whining girl!
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30 May 01:25, by Lotodo Awino Odug
Change, Charles, Bakasoro and let see what they are going to
do.obviously, it seems like they want to know what chaos look like.
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30 May 04:59, by Force 1
Marie;
You think Wesley didn’t fire enough; well then go and try it!
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30 May 05:43, by Mi diit
Ahahahaa...Wesley cannot fight any longer. He has to early
redefect from SPLA-IO and put conditional surrender to the government
to protect his Nyarango boys.
I know it is not easy to fight the government.
But know one thing Wesley, you have already provoked the
government in the area and don’t ever think of easy surrender.
So-called REMNASA rebels are also there in the area.
Confusion in WES
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30 May 06:08, by Mi diit
It looks like a federalized war where each son or
daughter is sent to his or her own backyard to liberate it
autonomously from Kiir’s ’most inner circles’ but with the same
objective of the bigger picture to finally kick out the cowboy from
Juba.
I think I like that kind of payam level, county level,
state level and national level kinds of rebellions!
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30 May 06:25, by Rommel
Mi diit:
There is no "federalized war". That’s merely your
desperation and delusion coming to the fore, yet again. Riek simply
isn’t popular enough for entire regions to fight on his behalf, under
his historically disastrous pseudo-’leadership’. This is precisely why
Johnson Olony opted to remain independent of Riek instead of declaring
allegiance to a rat.
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30 May 06:20, by Rommel
It’s clear that this isn’t a ’rebellion’. There are very real
grievances that need to be addressed with tact and delicacy. One of
the premier grievances is the issue of pastoralists coming in from
Lakes State and destroying crops with their marauding cattle. This
needs to stop. The ’government’ needs to find a way to satiate the
needs of the pastoralists in their own environs.
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30 May 08:02, by Mi diit
Rommel,
Watch that language of yours which is a language of street
boy or nigga. When did Dr. Riek become a rat? You are so uncivlized in
your emotions.
You said Gen Olony chose to fight Kiir and defend Shilluk
kindom (Fashoda state) separately from Riek. That is what I called
’federalized war.’
And by the way, don’t even try to downplay the emerging
rebellion in Western Equatoria.
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30 May 08:12, by Rommel
Mi diit:
Calling somebody a rat isn’t ’street language’, but
using the N-word certainly is, you hapless sod. God, you’re pathetic.
You don’t even know when you’re contradicting yourself. It is not a
"federalized war" if it is exclusively concentrated in one region.
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30 May 09:11, by Rommel
Why is it that you want to feign indigence
regarding the use of the word rat when it is applied to Riek but have
absolutely no problem with using the word against an entire tribe? Oh,
that’s right... I have a very good memory. This is what you said: "How
can rats arrest cats." Source:
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article44449
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30 May 09:51, by Rommel
..You said that in response to a Dinka
discussant that suggested that certain Nuer Generals would be
arrested. Again, you said this: "How can rats arrest cats. It takes a
Nuer to arrest another Nuer."
You now make it crystal clear that you are so
utterly demented as to have no idea of what you are writing from one
post to the next.
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30 May 10:34, by Koang
The Desert Fox............When some one is
doing the Right-Thing, it is rare to fail.
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30 May 11:03, by Mi diit
Rommel,
I know you are so illiterate that you
don’t even know the usage of idioms in language.
Cats in relations to rats means a rat is
always the victim of a cat. In other words, a weaker person cannot
arrest a stronger person. That is what I mean. Educate yourself.
Oh, you are talking of war in one region
when Lakes, Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Western Equatoria are having
rebels. Be serious
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30 May 11:57, by Rommel
Mi diit:
I am far above you intellectually, and
so you really shouldn’t embarrass yourself with these lame attempts at
sounding lordly and intelligent. Rats are cowardly — they do not lose
over a million of their own and carry on fighting, and so your analogy
is laughably and misplaced...
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30 May 12:06, by Rommel
..The rat’ moniker fits a ’people’
that worked for Khartoum like slaves for decades on end... relying on
their food relief, supplies, weapons and ammunition, and subsequently
being discarded like dirty, overused prostitutes. I used rat as an
insult because rats are almost universally considered dirty, scheming
and criminal. How in the world is your analogy more applicable and
legitimate?
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30 May 12:13, by Rommel
..The rebels are not present
in any place in Bahr el Ghazal, other than the disputed territories on
the border with Sudan. The recent and very isolated incident in
Equatoria is not indicative of a rebellion. The people supposedly
involved in the rebellion in Western Equatoria seem to be at pains to
emphasize that they are not rebelling. Take your mindless prattle
elsewhere, fool.
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30 May 12:21, by Rommel
You should probably go
back to your Nuer tribesmen and try to interpret Ngundeng’s supposedly
prophetic songs. That is the level of your feeble intellect. You live
in an inverted world in which stupidity is intelligence, treachery is
loyalty and superstition is logical. Other than your Nuer tribesmen,
everybody can see and will readily concede that I am intellectually
far above you.
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30 May 12:44, by Koang
The Desert Fox.........you
are for sure well educated but this does not makes your
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30 May 10:40, by Koang
Marie:
ahahahah! I love that.....It means alot me personally.
Thxk.
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30 May 06:45, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
Begging for Mid-west State is not the solution, Wesley. Re
constitution of the Government of South Sudan with new leadership
direction is the way. Tribalism, nepotism, and corruption should be
made history. Join Lodoru to bring that change but remember no good
change is cost-free.
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30 May 06:51, by Eastern
I like the name of Wesley’s organisation: Nyarango boys, it shows
that these boys are really crop farmers growing the vital Nyarango
cereal in the community. We are likely to see bafura boys popping up
anytime soon among the farming communities in Equatoria.
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30 May 15:12, by Ahmed Chol
Eastern,
There is nothing boyish about Nyarango boys. They are actually
behaving like girls because there is no boy thing they have done yet.
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30 May 11:40, by Hardlinner
well it look like riek rebels premature claimed to rebellion in
mundri have back fire. though being dinka my self, I know some our
dinka soldiers show less respect to civilians. it is not only nondinka
but even dinka civilians suffers from hands of those unprofessional
soldiers. gov. should not rush thing but study the root of the
problem. the cattle keepers shld also respect the host land.
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